Re: another perl question

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

david sowerby <davidso@pacifier.com> wrote:
>Hi, can anyone tell me why there are perl5 binaries and perl-5 binaries in
>/usr/bin ? Whats the differemce ?

None: they're hard links to each other, provided for convenience.

[cjw44@riva ~]$ ls -i1 /usr/bin/perl{-5.005,5*}
   2275 /usr/bin/perl-5.005
   2275 /usr/bin/perl5.005
   2275 /usr/bin/perl5.00503

You're best off using /usr/bin/perl instead, though (which should always
link through the alternatives system to a useful version).

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]